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A treasure trove of art tutorials!Looking for a tutorial on how to digitally paint trees for my book cover, I stumbled upon a collection of excellent digital painting tutorials that cover things a little off the beaten path--like painting over photos to make backgrounds and color grading. They're by Mclelun and you can see some of them here: http://www.mclelun.com/p/tutorial.html Click… READ MORE | Learn to draw environments and backgrounds easier with this fantastic exercise for beginners!I've been wanting to learn how to draw environments FOREVER but nothing's ever quite stuck (looks at the various perspective drawing books on her shelf). But this! This video from Tyler Edlin (AKA BrushSauce) on YouTube has opened my eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhvtuZIEV_Q I started doing these...and then...just once...while watching something, maybe a shot of a hallway… READ MORE | Goat Book Cover WIP 2This is Will. She's the Capramancer, a mage who speaks with the magical goats and coordinates with them so they can rescue mages lost in the aether. There's a lot of elements on this book cover, so it's taking me some time...Slow and steady wins the race (and perhaps makes a cool poster to sell… READ MORE |